PHUPHENA. 597 



3467. Phupliena petrovna. (Plate CXXI. fig. 23.) 

 Leptina fetrovna, Schaus, Traus. Am. Ent. Soc. xxx. p. 152 (1904). 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with chocolate-brown ; 

 palpi chocolate-red ; shoulders streaked with chocolate-brown ; 

 femora chocolate-red ; abdomen white banded with chocolate-red, 

 the ventral surface tinged with chocolate. Fore wing violaceous 

 grey irrorated with chocolate-brown ; antemedial line red-brown 

 defined by white on inner side, angled outwards below costa, very 

 oblique to just below median nervure, then very oblique inwardly 

 to inner margin, a wedge-shaped chocolate-brown patch before it 

 above inner margin ; orbicular white with slight greyish centre, 

 very narrow and oblique wedge-shaped, its lower extremity pro- 

 duced to the renit'orm, which is narrow and oblique, its centre grey 

 slightly defined by brown, the triangular area between the stigmata 

 suffused with chocolate ; a difi^used oblique chocolate medial shade 

 from lower angle of cell to above inner margin ; postmedial line 

 double, red-brown filled in with white, excurved below costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4 and bent 

 outwards to inner margin ; subterminal line white, with a strong 

 deep chocolate-brown baud on inner side, oblique, acutely angled 

 outwards at vein 4 ; a fine deep brown line just before termen, 

 very slightly angled outwards at vein 6 and angled inwards at 

 discal fold ; cilia chocolate-brown. Hind wing white, the costal 

 and terminal areas suff'used with red ; a red-brown terminal line ; 

 cilia wnite, tinged with red and with red-brown line through them 

 from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white, the costal half sufi^used 

 and irrorated with deep red, leaving a white fascia through the cell 

 to termen and white streaks on the veins, the terminal line and line 

 through the cilia deep red. 



Hah. Brazil, Organ Mts., Tijnca (Wnc/nei'), 1 cj , Eio Janeiro, 

 2 d" , Petropolis (Doer), 1 J, ISao Paulo '(Z). Jones), 1 J , 1 $. 

 Exj). 28-30 millim. Type f in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



3468. Phuphena u-alba. (Plate CXXI. fig. 24.) 



Ceramica u-album, Guen. Noct. i. p. 345 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 174. 

 Jpamea ■purpuripennia, Grote, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1874, p. 206. 

 Orthosia baliola, Morr. Proc. Best. Soc. N. H. xvii. p. 148 (1874). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish, the head deeper 

 rufous, with a white line between antennge which are whitish at 

 base ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing red-brown, suffused with 

 purplish grey except on medial area in, below, and beyond cell ; 

 subbasal line red-brown, Avaved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line red-brown, oblique, waved ; claviform faintly defined 

 by red-brown; orbicular represented by a whitish point slightly 

 defined by red-brown in upper part of cell, the reniform by a 



